After launching last Tuesday, Defend Our Health’s searchable directory of more than 200 cookware, bakeware, and kitchen appliance companies’ chemical disclosures was shared across Maine and around the country.
Visitors can check specific products they are considering buying for PFAS and other chemicals of concern, or can choose to shop brands that do not intentionally add PFAS to any of their cookware. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can search brands and their PFAS status here!
Read more about our project and how it improves consumer safety and consumer choice nationwide below:
- Plastic Detox (editorial team) — 149 Cookware Brands Checked for PFAS. More Than Half Use It published July 21, 2026
- Maine Public Radio (Michael Livingston) — Advocacy group launches database of products made with ‘forever chemicals’ published July 22, 2026
- Maine Morning Star (Kaitlyn Budion) — Want to know if your nonstick pan contains PFAS? A new searchable database has the answer published July 24, 2026
- Environmental Working Group (David Andrews & Tasha Stoiber) — Buying cookware? A California law makes it easier to spot PFAS in kitchen products published July 28, 2026
- Climate, Gendered (staff writers) — Digest: Pregnant people and wildfires, 68% of kids surveyed in India missed school amid heat, Ebola update, flood sirens, avoiding PFAS in cookware published July 24, 2026
- CentralMaine.com (Letters to the Editor) — PFAS exposure should be top of Mainers’ minds posted July 28, 2026
- Green Lodging News (Glenn Hasek) — California Law Makes It Easier to Spot PFAS in Kitchen Products published July 29, 2026
- Edhat Santa Barbara (Kaetlyn Liddy) — How This California Law is Reshaping the Cookware Aisle for American Shoppers published July 30, 2026
